Texas Partners in Flight

General Information

Birding enthusiasts as well as professional ornithologists have recognized for years that there has been a decline in our migratory songbirds. As it turned out, they were entirely correct; but little was being done for our magnificent songbirds until 1990 when Partners in Flight was organized with the help of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Partners in Flight (PIF) is an international cooperative effort to direct resources toward protecting neotropical migratory birds and their habitats. The program provides the framework for state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), birding enthusiasts, land owners and managers, researchers, educators, and many other "partners" in the conservation of Neotropical Migratory Birds (often abbreviated NTMBs).

Partners in Flight organizes the nation into regions with regional steering committees and working groups to establish plans, priorities and networks to conserve the birds in their area. Texas has several representatives on the PIF Southeastern Steering Committee as well as a representative on the international committee.

Texas Partners in Flight
(TXPIF) is the local link
to national and international
initiatives. An incorporated
non-profit organization,
TXPIF is guided by a nine-member
board with nine physiographic
regional technical leaders
throughout the state. The
Texas network is growing
and active in many ways.
Already there are over 1,000
interested individuals on
the mailing list who have
been receiving the occasional
newsletter, "Flyway".
The TXPIF-sponsored workshops
as well as reporting on
land management, monitoring
and educational projects
for the conservation of
neotropical migratory birds
and educational projects
for their conservation.

If you would like to help
stop the decline of the
Neotropical Migratory Birds
that reed or pass through
Texas, let us hear from
you. You can make a difference
with conservation efforts
in your community and on
your own property. Some
assistance is also needed
with research projects,
avian surveys, literature
searches, and in organizing
the TXPIF network in the
regions. If you would like
more information, tell us
about your special interests
and talents, let us know
if you are a landowner interested
in habitat conservation
and restoration, and if
you want to be on the mailing
list. The birds need your
help.